• magic_lobster_party@kbin.run
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    4 months ago

    Governments are incentivized to match people to combat declining birth rates. Lower birth rates means fewer productive people to support an aging population. It’s also loss in taxes.

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      4 months ago

      Governments have no incentives. People working in them have some. Having more youngsters questioning what they are doing, working and thus not relying on aid, may be less convenient than all those old people living on pensions voting for something stupid.

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        4 months ago

        Governments have no incentives. People working in them have some.

        By this logic, companies also aren’t incentivised to do anything, just the people working in them.

        Governments do have incentives. Saying they don’t is absurd.

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          4 months ago

          Correct. Companies are not. And what they do makes sense if you look at it this way. You could even notice how this reinforces the leftist positions on economics popular here, if your thinking were just a bit more agile.

          Saying they don’t is absurd.

          This is not very persuasive and seems to lack any elaboration of how would that work. From the ground up, like every good elaboration does.

          Governments do have incentives.

          Which ones then? I’m certain I’ll be able to disprove any of them.